Session 2 - The Valuation Principle, The Law of One Price, Time Value of Money and Its Applications
Session 2 - The Valuation Principle, The Law of One Price, Time Value of Money and Its Applications
• You are not a big fan of her, but you would rather go to the sold-out show of
Massive Attacks, whose ticket costs €75 on eBay. What would you do?
• Your personal preferences do not really matter for the «value» of the tickets
you won
• Check the price of Gainsbourg’ tickets on eBay, sell them there, and with the
proceeds buy one ticket for Massive Attacks
• The values of costs are easily observable, they are the market prices of
each product
• We pay some price today (costs) while the “product” (e.g. a bond) delivers the
benefit (some fixed amount of money) in the future
• Accordingly, to make decisions we need to relate the costs and benefits that
occur at different points in time!
• Periods are of equal length (at least in this course), cash flows occur at the end
• From my perspective, a €100 bill that I pay to someone is a negative cash flow
• From that someone’s perspective that same €100 bill is a positive cash flow
$100.00 -$110.00
• But how do we know if the price we paid (return / interest we earned) is fair?
• The interest (return) and the price of [future] money are two sides of the
same coin
• Choosing bank A (R = 9.89%) over B (R = 11.11%) is the same as paying $91 for the same
$100 instead of paying $90!
• As such, all of us will want to save with B and “force” bank A to change its
policy or go out of business – this is competitive market!
• What we want is the greatest possible return (or the lowest possible price)
• We usually work with returns (they do not depend on sizes of cash flows)
• Suppose we save $1000 in a bank over one year; the competitive interest
rate (opportunity cost) is 10%
𝐹𝑉 = 𝑃𝑉 × 1 + Interest rate
• The interest rate provides for a rate at which we exchange money today for
money in the future (1.10 here)
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Savings example (2/2)
• What happens if we want to save for more than a year?
• If we put $1000 at the savings account today, how much will we have in two
years?
2
$1210 = $1000 × 1 + 10% = $1210
$5,000 x 1.10 $5, 500 x 1.10 $6,050 x 1.10 $6,655 x 1.10 $7,321 x 1.10 $8,053
• Thus, you would be better off forgoing the gift of $5,000 (A) today and
taking the $10,000 (B) in five years
$5,000 x 1.10 $5, 500 x 1.10 $6,050 x 1.10 $6,655 x 1.10 $7,321 x 1.10 $8,053
Present value Future value
Discount
• We computed the future value (FV) but reversing the computation obtains us
the present value (PV)
𝐹𝑉 $8,053
𝑃𝑉 = $5,000 = 5
= 5
1+𝑟 1 + 10%
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Applying the opportunity cost
• Remember that we computed the FV of the $5,000 by moving it to the future
(compounding)
• We can also compute how much money would we need to save today to get
10,000 in year 5 (the present value of $10,000)
𝐹𝑉 $10,000
𝑃𝑉 = 5
= 5
= $6,209.21
1+𝑟 1 + 10%
Today Year 5
Choice A
Get: Equivalent:
$5,000.00 $8,052.55
Today Year 5
Choice B
Equivalent: Get:
$6,209.21 $10,000.00
A. $7,903.05
B. $8,375.92
C. $8,457.29
D. $8,745.22
• But suppose we plan to save $1000 today, and $1000 at the end of
each of the next two years
• If we can earn a fixed 10% interest rate on our savings, how much
will we have three years from today?
𝑁 𝑁
𝐶𝑛
𝑃𝑉 = 𝑃𝑉(𝐶𝑛 ) = 𝑛
1+𝑟
𝑛=1 𝑛=1
• $2,875.72
• $3,234.15
• $3,561.98
• $3,388.43
• PV = $1,000/(1.10)1 + $3,000/(1.10)2 =
$3,388.43
• $52,967.32
• $54,097.87
• $54,907,68
• $55,077.73
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Solution: C
• PV = $25,000/(1.05)1 + $20,000/(1.05)2 +
$15,000/(1.05)3 = $54,907,68
• There is no cash available in your firm at this moment. What would you do?
• In one year you obtain €550 from the opportunity and reimburse the loan = €509.26 X
(1.08) = €550!
• Scale back the business and continue running it while you are in school for one more year,
then sell it in a year. In this case, you need to spend 30,000EUR on expenses now, but
generating €50,000 in profit at the end of this year;
• Hire someone to manage the business while you are in school for one more year, then sell
the business. In this case, you need to spend €50,000 on expenses now, but generating
€100,000 in profit at the end of this year.
• Ok: but what about the €60,000 you need for the school?
• Borrow €110,000 today to hire the manager and pay the school. You will need to
reimburse €121,000 in a year → cash flow in a year = €179,000 (200k + 100k −
121k)
• If you sell now, you can reinvest €140,000 (net of the payment for the school) →
€154,000 in a year
• Investment analysis
• Capital budgeting
• Solution (apply the previous formula): you would need to donate $2.5
million to endow the chair
C 1
PV (annuity; C , r , n) = 1 −
n
r (1 + r )
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Example of annuity: a retirement
rent
• You are 65 years old and are considering whether it pays to buy an
annuity from an insurance company. For a cost of $100,000 the
insurance company will pay you $10,000 per year for the rest of your
life, starting next year. You can earn 8% per year investing your
money in a bank account and you expect to live until age 80.
• Is it worth for you to buy the annuity? The implied interest rate the
insurance company is paying you is higher or lower than 8%?
• This is lower than $100,000; it is not worth to buy this annuity (you overpay)
• Asking you to pay $100,000 for this product, the insurance company is
offering the rate that makes the PV of such an annuity equal to $100,000:
since PV and rate are inversely related, the insurance company is then
paying you implicitly a rate which is lower than 8%
• PV = (C/r) * (1 – 1/(1+r)n)
• C = (0.01*PV) / (1 – 1/(1.01)240)
• $484.94
• $502.14
• $590.48
• $635.67
C
PV (growing perpetuity) =
r − g
𝐶 $100𝑘 $100𝑘
𝑃𝑉 = = = = $5𝑚
𝑟 − 𝑔 4% − 2% 0.02
1 1 + g
N
PV = C 1 −
(r − g ) (1 + r )
• When you take out a loan you may know the amount you would like to
borrow, but may not know the loan payments that will be required to
repay it
• Indicates the total amount of interest that will be earned (or paid) at the
end of one year
• Suppose now that after 15 years the firm sells the warehouse for
$120,000
• When selling the asset, the loan must be paid back to the bank
• How much do you still owe to the bank after 15 of the 30 years of the
loan?
7,106 1
Outstanding Loan Balance = 1 − = $60,824
15
8% (1 + 8% )
Loan balance
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Business examples of such
loans
• Leasing / acquisition of aircrafts by airline
companies